Zach, Chris Moates did an interesting presentation on Puppet during CPOSC a few months back. I was actually looking at his slides for a refresher the other day. You might find something useful in there as far as reasons to use Puppet. He lists quite a few and why its beneficial.
You can grab a PDF of his presentation here: http://wiki.cposc.org/_media/2008:cposc2008-moates-scalableadmin.pdf Hope this helps! -- Ryan Duff web: http://www.ryanduff.net aim: ryancduff twitter: ryancduff Zach Buckholz wrote: > > This may sound like a confusing / trick question, so please bare > with me. > > What problem(s) will puppet solve? Why would I use it? > > I am trying to pitch the use of puppet in our environment and need > to follow a formal proposal model. Which means I need to start with > a problem to solve or situation to improve. > > The concept of what puppet will do needs to be explained to > non-technical business leaders. > > This is what I have come up with so far; (I wish the reductive labs > site had a wiki page for this) > > What is the problem? > Unknown configurations > Environment is not dynamic > Messy > No central model > Hard to change > No consistency > Administration overhead > Reactive instead of proactive > Unorganized > Need scripts to work with linux and solaris > Hard to scale > > Can anyone add (non-technical explanations) to the above list? > > > Zach --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
